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Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad

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resources of its service area. Logs were carried to mills in Manistee. The railroad also attempted to develop a sideline as a hauler of
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in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The railroad's main line stretched from
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in 1955. A section of the short railroad's right-of-way is now in use as the
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The Manistee and North-Eastern was consolidated into the
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Reporting mark
Michigan
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Track gauge
standard gauge
reporting mark
Michigan
Lower Peninsula
Manistee
Traverse City
Northport
Leelanau Transit Company
timber
potatoes

Suttons Bay
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Leelanau Trail
The Official Railway Equipment Register



Categories
Defunct Michigan railroads
Northern Michigan
Predecessors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

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